GSCHERL wrote:
> I've heard of this philosopher before...most recently in terms of
> all new concepts and ideas going through various stages...first
> ridiculed, then opposed and finally serving as self-evident.
I would like to know more about this.
>
> Can anyone point me towards some of Arthur Schopenhauer's works?
Schopenhauer's main work is "The World as Will and Representation", in
which he develops his thesis that all objects of knowledge are but
representations and things in themselves are will. An earier and also
important work is "On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient
Reason", in which he applies the principle that "Nothing is without a
reson to be". For those who can read Spanish, I can advice a very good
anthology "Schopenhauer en sus Paginas", edited by Pedro Stepanenko,
published by Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico. Prof Moira Nicholls, from
the University of Tasmania, who did a thesis on Schopenhauer, advised
these two books: "Schopenhauer and Nietzsche" by Georg Simmel (Amherst:
The University of Massachusetts Press, 1986) and "Schopenhauer: The Human
Character" (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990). You can also
find a short overview of Schopenhauer's philosophi in the following net
locations:
http://hume.ucdavis.edu//phi151/OCT3LEC.HTM
http://hume.ucdavis.edu//phi151/OCT5LEC.HTM
http://hume.ucdavis.edu//phi151/oct10lec.htm
Durval Muniz de Castro
Fundagco Centro Tecnolsgico para Informatica
Campinas, Brasil
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